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Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Rust adds another layer of trusting the compiler isn't backdoored. All UNIX/Linux systems use the gcc toolchain, so having it written in C would mean less dependencies for the OS.

Strange times.

[–] eah@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago

There's an ongoing effort to get gcc to compile Rust.^[https://lwn.net/Articles/907405/]